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Served as party leader. senator, i appreciate you joining us. ment i'm prone to say thank you -- i mean say sorry for your loss but sorry for all of our loss. bob dole meant so much to the country. you say you would have gone over a cliff for that guy? what do you mean? >> i was in the military, too, in the infantry and he was obviously heavily decorated. i said to him when i became the assistant leader, i was the assistant leader for ten years and i said, you know, i know what leadership is. you don't have to worry about anything. there's no footsteps behind you. i'm not interested in your jo...

>> it's under investigation so no, we haven't ruled out charging anyone. right now we're focused on -- i'm focused on making sure this community knows our first priority is keeping the community safe and holding the people accountable who could have prevented this and right now the crumbleys are those two people. none of this should have happened. a 15 1/2-year-old should not be sitting in jail facing life in prison. these children who were terrorized and killed and shot, none of it should have happened and it could have been prevented. >> karen, i really appreciate you joining us. obviously t...

This morning for the first time in two months, the u.s. is averaging more than 120,000 new covid-19 cases each day. the vast majority of new cases continue to be from the delta variant but u.s. health officials detected the new omicron variant in at least 17 states. meanwhile in south africa where omicron was first detected, coronavirus cases are spiking. however, south africa's president says hospitalizations from omicron are not increasing at an alarming rate. joining us now is an epidemiologist from south africa who has helped lead his country's covid response, salim abdool karim. thank you...

>> elie honig, thank you very much. so new u.s. intelligence estimate russia could amass up to 175,000 troops along the border with ukraine, coming ahead of the high stakes talks tomorrow between joe biden and vladimir putin. joining us is jim sciutto. you helped break a lot of this news about russia, what russia is doing on the border and the plans to invade and now -- plans they have drafted for a possible invasion, i hope i'm phrasing that correctly. bottom line is president biden will speak to vladimir putin tomorrow. what is this conversation going to be like? >> difficult one. not just...

John avlon. we can agree that one is too many. to see anyone marching on white supremacists to the lincoln memorial is a sight none of us ever wants to see. >> there's something almost too on the nose about having a bunch of guys dressed up like they're ready to go to war, dressed up with battle armor and shields because in their minds the civil war never ended. >> right. >> what they're chanting is always so telling. "reclaim america." when was america taken and who was it taken from and by whom? >> they feel like it's been taken from white folks. >> when are brown and black people -- >> we'r...